Closer to the Sun

Following the death of his lover, Brad Gray drifts from New York, wandering westward in a loose succession of house-sitting jobs. Lonely and desperate for companionship, he arrives in California at an empty home overlooking Encantado Canyon, a wildfire-charred valley near Los Angeles. One day, peering through a telescope, Brad spies the skeleton of another home being built by a young couple across the canyon. Eventually Brad meets Ethan and Helen Zayne, and after some reluctance is drawn into their quixotic project. Working from a how-to book and sketchy blueprints, the Zaynes envision a glowing, light-filled home with a commanding view - but their true motives are darker and more interior. The three become fast friends; soon the Zaynes move into Brad's house-sit, by day carpentering and stone-masoning, by night swimming, drinking, and imagining their finished home. The Zaynes are golden and beautiful, seemingly the perfect couple. Brad feels revitalized by their exuberance, until problems with the construction reveal deeper flaws in a marriage with many secrets. As California's arid Santa Ana winds spark the canyon, Brad and restless, troubled Helen begin a series of break-ins into other homes, escalating risks as they search for clues to the elusive utopia they both want to create.

Literature & Fiction

Gadol, Peter

United States

Picador USA

Estranged from his wife, Eric Auden moves into a West Village loft above the Mystery Roast Cafe, where he reunites with his childhood friend, Timothy, a gay artist, and falls in love with female inventor Inca

The Mystery Roast

After losing his lover to AIDS, Brad Gray flees New York and makes his way to the California coast, where he is drawn ever more deeply into the lives of Ethan and Helen Zayne and their troubled plans for a renewed marriage

Literary

Picador

While speeding in his car, California wine grower Jason Dark kills a boy. A car thief is arrested and police obtain a confession. Dark, a lawyer by profession, takes the man's defense for free, but will that be sufficient to salvage his conscience?

The Long Rain

Light at Dusk: A Novel

Will Law, a rising star in the U.S. Foreign Service, mysteriously walks away from his post and, in Paris, falls into the arms of his onetime lover Pedro. When the child of a mutual friend is kidnapped by a Nationalist gang, Will is reluctantly drawn back to the diplomatic world he abandoned. Fighting against a rising tide of French anti-immigrant hatred, the Americans launch a deperate search across the city. In the process, Will must challenge the moral burdens of his past, and in an attempt to rescue the child, he must also find a way to redeem himself.

Lawyer Jason Dark has finally gotten his life together - he has revived his father's dying vineyard and happily reunited with his wife and son. But one rainy night as he drives recklessly along a mountain road, Jason accidentally hits and kills a young man. When he tells no one, the death is pinned on a drifter. In an attempt to save the innocent man, Jason decides to defend him in court. But the case takes an unexpected twist - one which will haunt Jason for the rest of his days.

The Long Rain: A Novel

Will Law, a rising star in the U.S. Foreign Service, mysteriously walks away from his post and, in Paris, falls into the arms of his onetime lover Pedro. When the child of a mutual friend is kidnapped by a Nationalist gang, Will is reluctantly drawn back to the diplomatic world he abandoned. Fighting against a rising tide of French anti-immigrant hatred, the Americans launch a deperate search across the city. In the process, Will must challenge the moral burdens of his past, and in an attempt to rescue the child, he must also find a way to redeem himself.
Peter Gadol's novel Light at Dusk "...will not look out of place ...on the shelf somewhere between Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene."--Ben Ehrenreich, L.A. Weekly

San Francisco lawyer Jason Dark commits an accidental crime and, unable to confess, he ends up defending the man who has been wrongly accused of that same crime

St Martins Pr

Eking out a living by giving directions to strangers in the Arizona desert, Coyote Gato, an orphaned loner, falls in with a journalist searching for a mysterious ashram, an archaeologist and her sculptor brother, and a scheming guru

Coyote

Crown

Estranged from his wife, Eric Auden moves into a West Village loft above the Mystery Roast Cafe+a7, where he reunites with his childhood friend, Timothy, a gay artist, and falls in love with female inventor Inca.

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Books by Gadol, Peter

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Closer to the Sun

The Mystery Roast

Closer to the Sun

The Long Rain

Light at Dusk: A Novel

The Long Rain: A Novel

Light at Dusk: A Novel

The Long Rain

Coyote

The Mystery Roast